La France Insoumise

France Unbowed

*La France Insoumise*
France Unbowed La France Insoumise
Abbreviation	FI, LFI
Coordinator	Manuel Bompard
Founder	Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Founded	10 February 2016
Newspaper	L'Insoumission Hebdo
Membership (2017)	540,000[needs update]
Ideology	Democratic socialism; Anti-neoliberalism; Eco-socialism; Souverainism; Left-wing populism; Euroscepticism;
Political position	Left-wing to far-left
National affiliation	New Popular Front (2024–present); New Ecological and Social People's Union (2022–2024)
European affiliation	Party of the European Left (observer); Now the People
European Parliament group	The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL
Colours	Purple Red
National Assembly	74 / 577
Senate	0 / 348
European Parliament (French seats)	9 / 81
Presidencies of departmental councils	0 / 101
Presidencies of regional councils	0 / 17
Website
	lafranceinsoumise.fr
	Politics of France; Political parties; Elections;

La France Insoumise (FI or LFI; pronounced [la fʁɑ̃s ɛ̃sumiz], lit. 'France Unbowed')^[a] is a left-wing populist political party in France.^[12] It was launched in 2016 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, then a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and former co-president of the Left Party (PG). It aims to implement the eco-socialist and democratic socialist programme L'Avenir en commun (transl. A Shared Future).

The party nominated Mélenchon as its candidate for the presidential election of 2017. He came fourth in the first round, receiving 19.6% of the vote and failing to qualify for the second round by around 2%. After the legislative election of 2017, La France Insoumise formed a parliamentary group of 17 members of the National Assembly, with Mélenchon as the group's president. In the 2019 European Parliament election, it however only won six seats, below its expectations.

In 2022, Mélenchon again became the party's candidate for president, and later Christiane Taubira, winner of the People's Primary, endorsed Mélenchon. In the first round of 2022 French presidential election voting in April, Mélenchon came in third, garnering 7.7 million votes, narrowly behind second-place finisher Marine Le Pen.

The party uses the lower case Greek letter phi as its logotype.

^ "Partis politiques: les vrais chiffres des adhérents". franceinfo. 17 November 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
^ ^a ^b Nordsieck, Wolfram (2017). "France". Parties and Elections in Europe.
^ Arthur Nazaret (10 April 2014). "Quand Dray plante sa plume dans Mélenchon". Le Journal du Dimanche (in French). Retrieved 29 March 2018.
^ https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01889832/document
^ Abel Mestre (21 October 2017). "La tentation souverainiste de Jean-Luc Mélenchon". Le Monde. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
^ Denis Tugdual (5 April 2013). "Le Pen-Mélenchon: la mode est au langage populiste". L'Express (in French). Retrieved 29 March 2018.
^ Jean-Laurent Cassely (15 April 2013). "Le populisme "vintage" de Jean-Luc Mélenchon, trop élaboré pour être efficace". Slate (in French). Retrieved 29 March 2018.
^ Chadwick, Lauren (6 May 2022). "France's left-wing parties agree on legislative alliance". euronews.
^
- Baker, Luke (18 September 2017). "French unions and left-wing plan 10 days of action to rattle Macron". Reuters. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- Barbière, Cécile (3 October 2018). "La France Insoumise wants to turn European elections into anti-Macron referendum". Euractiv. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
- "Schools in France to display flags in classrooms". BBC News. 2 September 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- Dodman, Benjamin (25 November 2019). "Tackling domestic violence: 'If you ask the right questions at the right time, you will save lives'". France 24. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
^
- "" L'un d'entre nous va bien arriver à gagner les élections ", Mélenchon rencontre le leader du Labour". Ouest-France. Agence France-Presse. 24 September 2018. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
- Robin Korda (19 October 2018). "Perquisitions, dérapages : la mise au point de Mélenchon après une semaine houleuse". Le Parisien. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
- "French pension reform chief Jean-Paul Delevoye resigns over undeclared income". Euronews. 16 December 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- Nordstrom, Louise (12 June 2017). "André Chassaigne: One of the last defenders of France's 'dead' Communist Party?". France 24. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
^ "8th parliamentary term | Marie-Pierre VIEU | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. February 1967.
^ Fiche sur legifrance.gouv.fr (in French).

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[1] "Partis politiques: les vrais chiffres des adhérents". franceinfo. 17 November 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017.

[Nordsieck-2] Nordsieck, Wolfram (2017). "France". Parties and Elections in Europe.

[3] Arthur Nazaret (10 April 2014). "Quand Dray plante sa plume dans Mélenchon". Le Journal du Dimanche (in French). Retrieved 29 March 2018.

[4] ttps://shs.hal.science/halshs-01889832/document

[souverainiste-5] Abel Mestre (21 October 2017). "La tentation souverainiste de Jean-Luc Mélenchon". Le Monde. Retrieved 2 March 2019.

[6] Denis Tugdual (5 April 2013). "Le Pen-Mélenchon: la mode est au langage populiste". L'Express (in French). Retrieved 29 March 2018.

[7] Jean-Laurent Cassely (15 April 2013). "Le populisme "vintage" de Jean-Luc Mélenchon, trop élaboré pour être efficace". Slate (in French). Retrieved 29 March 2018.

[8] Chadwick, Lauren (6 May 2022). "France's left-wing parties agree on legislative alliance". euronews.

[Leftwing-9] 
Baker, Luke (18 September 2017). "French unions and left-wing plan 10 days of action to rattle Macron". Reuters. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
Barbière, Cécile (3 October 2018). "La France Insoumise wants to turn European elections into anti-Macron referendum". Euractiv. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
"Schools in France to display flags in classrooms". BBC News. 2 September 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
Dodman, Benjamin (25 November 2019). "Tackling domestic violence: 'If you ask the right questions at the right time, you will save lives'". France 24. Retrieved 8 January 2020.

[10] Baker, Luke (18 September 2017). "French unions and left-wing plan 10 days of action to rattle Macron". Reuters. Retrieved 8 January 2020.

[11] Barbière, Cécile (3 October 2018). "La France Insoumise wants to turn European elections into anti-Macron referendum". Euractiv. Retrieved 7 April 2019.

[12] "Schools in France to display flags in classrooms". BBC News. 2 September 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2020.

[13] Dodman, Benjamin (25 November 2019). "Tackling domestic violence: 'If you ask the right questions at the right time, you will save lives'". France 24. Retrieved 8 January 2020.

[Farleft-10] 
"" L'un d'entre nous va bien arriver à gagner les élections ", Mélenchon rencontre le leader du Labour". Ouest-France. Agence France-Presse. 24 September 2018. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
Robin Korda (19 October 2018). "Perquisitions, dérapages : la mise au point de Mélenchon après une semaine houleuse". Le Parisien. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
"French pension reform chief Jean-Paul Delevoye resigns over undeclared income". Euronews. 16 December 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
Nordstrom, Louise (12 June 2017). "André Chassaigne: One of the last defenders of France's 'dead' Communist Party?". France 24. Retrieved 18 March 2021.

[15] "" L'un d'entre nous va bien arriver à gagner les élections ", Mélenchon rencontre le leader du Labour". Ouest-France. Agence France-Presse. 24 September 2018. Retrieved 5 April 2019.

[16] Robin Korda (19 October 2018). "Perquisitions, dérapages : la mise au point de Mélenchon après une semaine houleuse". Le Parisien. Retrieved 5 April 2019.

[17] "French pension reform chief Jean-Paul Delevoye resigns over undeclared income". Euronews. 16 December 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2020.

[18] Nordstrom, Louise (12 June 2017). "André Chassaigne: One of the last defenders of France's 'dead' Communist Party?". France 24. Retrieved 18 March 2021.

[11] "8th parliamentary term | Marie-Pierre VIEU | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. February 1967.

[13] Fiche sur legifrance.gouv.fr (in French).

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